“Human Resources Internship at Distribution Center ”

Former Intern - Human Resources Intern At Distribution Center in Lebanon, IN

Former Intern - Human Resources Intern At Distribution Center in Lebanon, IN

I worked at Pearson as an intern (less than a year)

Pros

Good salary and additional pay for excellent attendance. Good work/life balance. Never had to do any work after clocked out.

Cons

May get boring in the long run and repetitive. Lot of interaction with applicants leading to wide ranges of experiences, good and bad ones. Duties may escalate if superior leaves, duties that were not originally planned.

Advice to ManagementAdvice

Perhaps try to reward employees better so as to avoid such high turnover and discontent with salary. Allow interns to use facilities. Add programs to create bonds and strengthen employee morale and bonding

Good benefits, work at home if weather is bad, nice colleagues, office situated in good location

Cons

The money is terrible. I had a Master's degree & I was making in the low 40s.

Nepotism is rampant. Anyone related to the bigger bosses, despite if they were productive employees, kept their jobs...while others, who were hard workers and often re-did the unproductive workers' work, were laid off. What I've come to realize is the good workers were laid off because: 1) any woman without children over age 30 was laid off (if you had a kid and paraded her/him around the office, you were golden) 2) ageism - anyone over age 30 was laid off (Pearson doesn't pay for excellent work from "older employees.")

What bothered me most in particular was during the hiring process, HR says: "If you're a good employee, we'll keep you." However, all the excellent, hardworking editors were laid off. Thus, Pearson does not invest in its employees.

The managing editors in the White Plains office were great. However, the director of my department didn't even know the basic rules of grammar...and she was overseeing editors!

Overall, Pearson does not respect its best workers. Instead, if you do well here, but you don't have an "in" or you're over 30 without children they will find a way to get rid of you. Beware.

Also, I found their system archaic. They still print everything out, instead of saving money and reading on computers and utilizing editing tools such as Track Changes.

Advice to ManagementAdvice

Stop hiring your childhood friends for the executive positions. When I was there, one of the highest executives made a $1 million mistake, just because he didn't know anything about the publishing business. He got the job by being "best friends" with one of the highest positions in the company.

Go out on the floor and see which employees really shine. You'll be shocked and realize why Pearson is failing.